- From what we have heard: 2000 and 2001 Celicas had lots of problems with people misshifting and bending valves so Toyota decided they didn't want to warranty engines and valves anymore and called it drivers error and lowered the rev limiter on the 2002 model. When people complained about the loss of power and the shortened power band, Toyota went back to the original rev limit on the 2003 and 2004 models by just changed the shift gates to wider ones and issued a T.S.B. for the shift gates for the 2000 and 2001.

- The revlimiter (governor) on the 2002 Celicas are set at about 7,300 rpm. The others are all about 8,300 rpm.

The only way to change the 2002 is to do a ECU swap with a 2001 or 2003. In addition to changing the ECU you will need the knock sensor swapped out as well.

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